Humans have a reptilian brain!

I would say it's sort of like base memory or machine language where the software applications are the outer extensions.

 

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It's like a metaphor.
The triune brain hypothesis created by Paul Maclean back in the 50's. It's not literal. Or, at least, unproven.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triune_brain

 

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